At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance- a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuire.
2010
E185.61 .M4777 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance- a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuire.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307269065 (alk. paper)
030726906X (alk. paper)
030726906X (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E185.61 .M4777 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1196/0730761
Summary
A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
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"Borzoi Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: at the dark end of the street
They'd kill me if I told
Negroes every day are being molested
Walking in pride and dignity
There's open season on Negroes now
It was like all of us had been raped
A black woman's body was never hers alone
Sex and civil rights
Power to the ice pick
Epilogue: we all lived in fear for years.
They'd kill me if I told
Negroes every day are being molested
Walking in pride and dignity
There's open season on Negroes now
It was like all of us had been raped
A black woman's body was never hers alone
Sex and civil rights
Power to the ice pick
Epilogue: we all lived in fear for years.